Work
Funding through delivery.
Funded proposals, managed awards and the finance behind them, from Praxis engagements, Hisham’s nonprofit and county roles and his independent consulting outside Praxis.
By role: $6,500,000 in a county role · $11,554,650 in nonprofit roles · $3,580,986 in independent consulting outside Praxis.
Selected awards and annual renewals Hisham wrote in county, nonprofit and consulting roles total $21,635,636, itemized below. The record combines agreements, public award records and owner-confirmed outcomes. Award amounts are program funding, not Praxis revenue.
These 24 awards and annual renewals, each counted once, support the published minimum.
Open “Funding focus” for the grant’s purpose, funded project and record details. Names below identify funding programs, projects or activities; funding purposes describe supported work, not independently measured outcomes.
Independent consulting: proposal work Hisham performed outside Praxis as an independent consultant.
The engagement was contracted with Hisham individually rather than with Praxis.
| Grant or funded project | Role | Funder | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI), Round 4: Youth-Driven ProgramsProgram · 2024 subawardFunding focusAn allcove youth drop-in center offering integrated mental health, physical health, substance-use, peer and family support, and supported education and employment for young people ages 12 to 25. Funded project: Mid Alameda County allcove (MAC allcove): an Empowerment & Healing Initiative for Youth. Round 4 of the Evidence-Based Practices and Community-Defined Evidence Practices Grant Program. | Nonprofit role | California Department of Health Care Services, through Heluna Health | $2,000,000 |
Healthcare Education, Access and Leadership (HEAL)Program · 2024 awardFunding focusHealthcare education and career pathways that expand access to training and support for people from communities underrepresented in the health workforce. Funded project: Strengthening Opportunities in Advancing Regional Healthcare (SOAR). | Independent consulting | Gilead Foundation | $1,000,000 |
Strategy One: Place-Based Resource CentersProgram · Fiscal 2024 to 2025 budgetFunding focusA family resource center connecting families with young children to parent-child activities, parenting classes, play-based learning and basic-needs support, including services for families of African descent. Counts the $676,456 annual budget; higher proposed and inferred multiyear totals are excluded. | Independent consulting | FIRST 5 Santa Clara County | $676,456 |
Project EmpowermentProgram · 2024 award recordFunding focusCulturally responsive HIV prevention and care access for Black/African American and Latinx communities, addressing stigma, medical mistrust and barriers to services. Counts $576,250; a later $599,500 budget remains under reconciliation. | Independent consulting | California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS | $576,250 |
Rise East ten-year plan / 40x40 CouncilFunded project · 2024 grant recordFunding focusProject support for the 40x40 Council to develop and implement the Rise East ten-year plan in East Oakland. | Independent consulting | The California Wellness Foundation | $500,000 |
California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP), Cohort 5ProgramFunding focusCommunity-based gun violence prevention through street outreach, conflict resolution, community healing, and youth leadership and development. The agreement ceiling is $5,087,000. The selected record counts $5 million and excludes the remaining $87,000. | County role | California Board of State and Community Corrections | $5,000,000 |
Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI)Program · Fiscal 2022 awardFunding focusPlanning and implementation of community violence intervention and prevention, connecting public agencies and community partners to address violent crime and gun violence. Separate from CalVIP; fiscal year identifies the award, not a role tenure. | County role | U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance | $1,500,000 |
Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Human TraffickingProgram · Fiscal 2024 awardFunding focusCoordinated, trauma-informed services for minors affected by sex or labor trafficking, including emergency assistance, longer-term support and service referrals. | Nonprofit role | U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime | $949,998 |
Anti-Trafficking Housing Assistance ProgramProgram · Fiscal 2024 awardFunding focusSafe, stable housing and related trauma-informed support for survivors of human trafficking. | Nonprofit role | U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime | $1,200,000 |
Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking ProgramProgram · Fiscal 2025 awardFunding focusTransitional housing and voluntary support services for survivors whose housing needs cannot be met by emergency shelter or crisis services alone. | Nonprofit role | U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women | $500,000 |
Improving Health Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Care in Communities of African DescentFunded project · Fiscal 2023 grant cycleFunding focusDiabetes education, access to care, health navigation and support for lifestyle changes in communities of African descent. | Independent consulting | The Health Trust | $150,000 |
Improving Health Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Care in Communities of African DescentFunded project · Fiscal 2024 grant cycleFunding focusDiabetes education, access to care, health navigation and support for lifestyle changes in communities of African descent. | Independent consulting | The Health Trust | $180,000 |
Improving Health Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Care in Communities of African DescentFunded project · Fiscal 2025 grant cycleFunding focusDiabetes education, access to care, health navigation and support for lifestyle changes in communities of African descent. | Independent consulting | The Health Trust | $200,000 |
The Root Cause Coalition summit participationFunded activity · Fiscal 2024 grant cycleFunding focusParticipation in a national convening on the social conditions that shape health, supporting community-health learning and exchange. A separate $2,500 grant in the funder’s filing, distinct from the diabetes-care award. | Independent consulting | The Health Trust | $2,500 |
Behavioral Health ConnectionsFunded project · Fiscal 2024 community-benefit reportFunding focusBehavioral-health access and delivery in Santa Clara County, with partnerships, clinical education and coordinated support for communities facing service gaps. | Independent consulting | Stanford Health Care, Community Benefit | $113,855 |
Behavioral Health ConnectionsFunded project · Fiscal 2025 community-benefit reportFunding focusBehavioral-health access and delivery in Santa Clara County, with partnerships, clinical education and coordinated support for communities facing service gaps. | Independent consulting | Stanford Health Care, Community Benefit | $120,000 |
Cut Hypertension (Cut HTN)Funded project · 2023 to 2024 grant cycleFunding focusCommunity-based hypertension care in barbershop settings. This award supported participant haircuts and the Barber Advisory Council’s involvement in program design. The grant report documents $7,500 for these uses; wider program outcomes are not attributed solely to this grant. | Independent consulting | Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group Community Health Care Endowment Fund | $7,500 |
Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of CalAIM and CHW Benefit ImplementationFunded project · September 2024 award-preparation recordFunding focusA feasibility study of California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) and community health worker (CHW) benefits, examining patient journeys, workflows and funding opportunities. Funding supported by an award-preparation sheet, not a signed agreement. Three installments counted once. Scope was feasibility, not a full financial analysis or business plan. | Independent consulting | California Health Care Foundation | $54,425 |
Rapid Re-Housing for Victims of Domestic Violence Renewal 2023Renewal project · Fiscal 2023 renewalFunding focusRapid rehousing for people affected by domestic violence. | Nonprofit role | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care | $1,302,823 |
Rapid Re-Housing for Transition Age Survivors of Domestic Violence RenewalRenewal project · Fiscal 2023 renewalFunding focusRapid rehousing for transition-age survivors of domestic violence. | Nonprofit role | HUD Continuum of Care | $1,027,232 |
Transitional Housing and Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Victims of Domestic Violence 2023Renewal project · Fiscal 2023 renewalFunding focusA joint transitional-housing and rapid-rehousing project for young people affected by domestic violence. | Nonprofit role | HUD Continuum of Care | $978,240 |
Rapid Rehousing for Victims of Domestic ViolenceRenewal project · Fiscal 2024 renewalFunding focusRapid rehousing for people affected by domestic violence. | Nonprofit role | HUD Continuum of Care | $1,428,293 |
Rapid Re-Housing for Transition Age Survivors of Domestic Violence Renewal FY 2024Renewal project · Fiscal 2024 renewalFunding focusRapid rehousing for transition-age survivors of domestic violence. | Nonprofit role | HUD Continuum of Care | $1,123,163 |
Transitional Housing and Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Victims of Domestic Violence 2024Renewal project · Fiscal 2024 renewalFunding focusA joint transitional-housing and rapid-rehousing project for young people affected by domestic violence. | Nonprofit role | HUD Continuum of Care | $1,044,901 |
Selected total$21,635,636
The CalVIP agreement has a $5,087,000 ceiling; this subtotal counts $5 million. The HIV-prevention and early-childhood rows retain the lower amounts while later budget versions are reconciled. Each U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) project renewal is counted once per fiscal year, using HUD’s fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024 project-level award reports (PDF), public documents that name the recipient, project, cycle and amount; authorship of each renewal is owner-confirmed. Other awards and renewals remain outside this subtotal. Proposed or unfunded requests are excluded.
Praxis engagement
The chapter was named its national organization’s 2026 National Chapter of the Year, with an application Hisham wrote. His grants for the chapter include $70,000 from a professional sports team’s community foundation, $50,000 from a health system for mental health programming and $45,000 from a corporate foundation for mentoring.
Praxis client since 2021.
Read the casePraxis engagement
Fractional finance lead since 2026
Fractional finance leadership: finance systems and reporting, grant compliance and county contract invoicing. Proposals written: a $50,000 operating request, a $10,000 food-access request and a $5,000 corporate request.
Read the caseIndependent consulting outside Praxis
2022 to 2025
Hisham wrote funded proposals including a $1 million corporate health-equity grant, a $676,456 county early-childhood award, a $576,250 state HIV-prevention award and $500,000 from a statewide health foundation.
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Nonprofit role · Youth behavioral health
The need
A youth behavioral-health drop-in center needed a successful funding case and the financial administration behind implementation.
What Hisham did
Wrote the successful Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) proposal and supported grant-related finance within the organization.
Result
$2 million awarded for youth behavioral health.
Services
Nonprofit role · HUD housing funding
The need
Housing work for survivors and transition-age young people needed applications and renewals tied to the continuing service model.
What Hisham did
Authored and managed HUD applications and renewals for survivor housing, including rapid rehousing.
Result
$6,904,652 across six HUD Continuum of Care renewals in fiscal 2023 and 2024. Each project renewal is counted once in the selected total.
Services
County role · Community violence prevention
The need
The county needed state and federal funding to build out community violence intervention with partner agencies.
What Hisham did
Wrote the successful $5 million California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) proposal. Also wrote the $1.5 million U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance (DOJ/BJA) proposal, awarded in 2022. Both proposals included scopes, budgets and subaward structure.
Result
$6.5 million awarded.
Services
Nonprofit role
Hisham wrote multi-year family-resource-center funding proposals that connected community priorities with an operating plan.
His proposal and funding work spans health equity, family support, youth development and workforce opportunity. That experience connects program design with budgets, funder requirements and reporting.
Wrote a $2.5 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) application, co-developed with a county public health department to establish a youth sexual health clinic. In 2023, the CDC rated it approved but unfunded. Prepared a two-year $250,000 health-system community benefit proposal with a balanced budget, fund controls and a participant survey; it was funded at $233,855 across two fiscal years and appears in the table above as the two behavioral health connections rows. The CDC application is not counted as a funded award.
Hisham has contributed to plans for reentry, community-development and youth-serving organizations and supported institutional and individual giving, donor stewardship and fundraising communications.
At Youth ALIVE!, Hisham trained 50 youth leaders a year and grew enrollment 200 percent.
Hisham served on the board and Finance Committee of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, a statewide coalition.
Hisham also served as consulting program manager for the OK Program of Oakland, supporting mentoring, police-youth dialogue, community events and joint programming. Earlier work includes policy and communications, nonprofit board service and grassroots fundraising.
In a county role, Hisham wrote Epic workflow and automation requirements that connect program needs with technical delivery.
Hisham’s Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) experience includes proposals, program design, participant eligibility, performance reporting and budgets. His background also includes reentry. He served on Contra Costa County’s Community Advisory Board (CAB), which advises the Community Corrections Partnership on AB 109 public safety realignment.
That experience sits alongside youth program leadership, violence prevention proposals and nonprofit finance.